PHITS version 3.10 was released! The features of the new version of PHITS
are written in update log. You can also find some important new features in this pdf file.

The export control polocy of PHITS was also changed. You can obtain the
full package or update patch of PHITS 3.10 by submitting our new application
form. Please see how to get page in more detail.

2018/12/21: Announcement of PHITS course in OECD/NEA, France

We are pleased to announce that we will have a PHITS training course in
OECD/NEA in France on 16-20 Sep, 2019. The details are as follows
/Venue : OECD-NEA, FRANCE (https://www.oecd-nea.org/general/location/)
/Date : 16-20th September 2019
/Fee : 500 Euros
/Tutors : Tatsuhiko OGAWA, Pi-en TSAI (JAEA. PHITS authors)
/Contents : Comprehensive tutorial course ranging from the basics to advanced
contents.
/Entry qualifications : People who work in one of the OECD-NEA data bank
member states, Canada or US.

You can register the course via OECD/NEA training course page from spring 2019.
If you have any question on this course, please email to PHITS office.
We are looking forward to seeing you at Paris!

2018/01/09: Publication on the latest PHITS (Ver.3.02)
The paper describing the features of the latest version of PHITS, Ver. 3.02,
has been published as an open-access article in JNST.
It will be a new official reference of PHITS.
Tatsuhiko Sato, Yosuke Iwamoto, Shintaro Hashimoto, Tatsuhiko Ogawa,
Takuya Furuta, Shin-ichiro Abe, Takeshi Kai, Pi-En Tsai, Norihiro Matsuda,
Hiroshi Iwase, Nobuhiro Shigyo, Lembit Sihver and Koji Niita
Features of Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS) version 3.02,
J. Nucl. Sci. Technol., 2018,
https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2017.1419890
This is an open access article, and you can download it from
here.

Please have a read of this to know about the recent upgrades and make use of them for your work.
Please do not forget to cite this article in your future publications on PHITS.

Please also refer the following about benchmark calculations, when you discuss about the accuracy of PHITS.
Yosuke Iwamoto, Tatsuhiko Sato, Shintaro Hashimoto, Tatsuhiko Ogawa, Takuya Furuta, Shin-ichiro Abe,
Takeshi Kai, Norihiro Matsuda, Ryuji Hosoyamada and Koji Niita
Benchmark study of the recent version of the PHITS code, J. Nucl. Sci. Technol. 54:5, (2017) 617-635. Open access2016/09/30: Release of update patch to PHITS2.88Update patch from PHITS2.52 (or later) to 2.88 is released!The procedure for the update has been announced via PHITS mailing list. You can register mailing list from contact page.
The update patch works only for PHITS2.52 (or later), so if you do not
have recent version of PHITS, please obtain the code from OECD/NEA, RSICC,
or RIST. (see How to Get page in more detail)

The features of the new version of PHITS are written in update log. You can also find some important new features in this pdf file.

We think that PHITS2.88 is greatly improved from the previous versions,
and we appreciate your feedback very much.